As Term 1 ends, we have completed testing our P5 students on the Commonly Misspelled Words list. Twice a year, students are given spelling lists. At the start of the year, they are tested on Commonly Misspelled Words list and in Term 3, they are tested on PSLE Editing List taken from 2017 – 2023/2-24. That is not all. Twice a month, students are also given Editing words to learn as spelling. In this day and electronic age, is spelling really that important? Yes, it is.
With the changes in the PSLE 2025 format, Editing is now out of 10 marks – 5 for spelling and 5 for grammar. While 5 marks may not seem like a lot, being able to spell commonly misspelled words is a great advantage to students. This is because components such as Editing, Synthesis and Transformation and Comprehension Cloze rely heavily on how well a student spells a word. For example, the student may know the answer in the cloze but unfortunately spells it wrong.
It is the same for Composition. A student may have good ideas and is descriptive in her writing. However, if the compo is peppered with spelling mistakes, a lot of marks will be subtracted from Language.
Below is the list of commonly misspelled words. We break up the list into weekly spelling words to test our P5 students. You can do the same at home.
P5 Commonly Misspelled Words
- athlete
- athletics
- aggressive
- authorize
- accumulate
- ascend
- amateur
- ageing
- acquaintance
- conscience
- convenient
- conscious
- unconscious
- cigarette
- diarrhoea
- dissatisfied
- disastrous
- dining
- desperate
- dilemma
- excitement
- embarrass
- especially
- environment
- exaggerate
- exhilarate
- enclosure
- familiar
- foreigner
- government
- horrified
- interview
- inevitable
- irresistible
- maintenance
- manoeuvre
- noticeable
- nausea
- opponents
- occasion
- occurrence
- panicked
- perseverance
- pronunciation
- pastime
- paralyze
- possession
- profession
- perspiration
- receive
- schedule
- separate
- sympathise
- sincerely
- scene
- sufficient
- severely
- unanimous
- victorious
- villain
- whether
- wrinkly
Check the other articles from this section
- How to ace the Cloze passage in P5
- 2023 P5 Editing List & PSLE Editing List
- P5 English Paper 2 SA2 Reminders
- Three tips to help P5 students prepare for the English Paper 2 component
- P5 Key Grammatical Structures
- How to manage tricky subject-verb-agreement questions in Primary 5?
- P5 CA1 Editing List 2016
- P5 CA1 Vocabulary List 2016
- Tips on Comprehension Cloze Passages for P5
- P5 Top School SA1 Editing List 2015
- Primary 5 Editing (Spelling) List
- Primary 5 Vocabulary List
- A number vs the number grammar rule
- Common grammar mistakes series: subject-verb-agreement
- Tips on Informal Situational Writing – P5
- English SA2 Revision: Ways to Tackle Comprehension OE
- Primary 5 English Grammar Subject-verb-agreement
- P5 English vocabulary & editing list
- Advice on how to prepare for the English Language Paper 2 in the Primary 5 year
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2025 P5 English Tuition Timetable
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